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Sharing is Love and So is JSA

I've been mulling over getting JSA for quite some time. JSA 'Darkness Falls' was proof that hesitation was silliness on my part. In the featured scans from the graphic novel there is subtext, Awesome Dinah, Wildcat on the phone with Selina and Jay being just wonderful!Possible NSFW if Wildcat in a bathtub or towel counts as such for your place of employment.

Added point is this is not even close to 1/4 of the awesome to be found in this graphic novel, so very worth it!

I love this run of JSA. They're getting into their stride with the legacy heroes being mentored by the Old Guys, but the series isn't overwhelmed with too many characters for the writers to keep track of.

I was really liking this some of the people were unfamiliar but like Atom Smasher - ADORED HIS HUGE CUTENESS! I wanted to do all him but it was so involved and would have needed so many scans and finer image editing.

Also the art was very fun even if every now and then there was a cringeworthy 'curse I wish they had modern colouring on this' because there was stuff like that swirly rainbow that was a bit loud and look we are using modern but old modern computer colouring stuff.

Who says the batfamily didn't steal it and put it on their belts... it might be difficult to supply and frequently forgotten about some batbelt incarnations are crazy loaded with stuff that rarely gets used.

Longer answer: If the Batclan could just use a magic foam for this sort of thing, most of them (ie. BRUCE!) would learn to disregard their physical condition even more than they already do. They are confronted with a second opinion of their physical health every time Alfred gives them the post-mission once-over, and he knows how to make sure that they at least think about it. The foam would take away from that, and it could conceivably cover up the symptoms of greater damage. Therefore, Alfred decided that it would be best if the foam stayed with a fully qualified, highly gifted physician and out of the hands of an exceedingly stubborn individual who knows better than to excessively jeopardize his health but does so anyway.

Forget the batfamily. Why hasn't Pieter taken out a patent and got it supplied to every EMT, paramedic, military field medic, sport doctor, etc. It'd help keep his clinics funded, as well as making all of the above's jobs easier.

That stuff really bugs me...while I don't mind Reed Richards is Useless (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReedRichardsIsUseless) on a grand scale, little things like this won't shift the world excessively away from the real world...

DC's been better about this lately - we've been seeing signs of use of smaller bits of supertech showing up, in medicine and communications, at least, though these two particular (small) examples haven't, that I've seen. Marvel may have, as well, but I don't read much Marvel.

Cochlear implants actually exist in the real world - they're just expensive. They cost USD 45000 to 105000, generally, including the surgery. I assume Will Magnus' more sophisticated device is even more expensive. The Pied Piper's parents were wealthy, but most people couldn't afford something like that.

Also Hartley's implants attach directly into his brain, highly risky (and they did this to a child...) They're more like Jaimie Sommers' bionics than like an IRL cochlear implant, really. It was stated that Hartley's parents spent millions on giving him hearing, so yeah, not likely to be a mass market item. Additionally, they were probably an experiment, and given how Hartley apparently went O/C and mental (to onlookers), the good doctor may have decided that going from full deaf to super-hearing was more than the human brain could handle.

Will Magnus is mentally unstable and in 52 it seems to indicate he has to be in his well off the meds state to 'invent' sooo odds are no one wants a Will Magnus Patent except supervillains because everyone wants something built by the unstable fellow that goes right into the person's brain amplifying sounds to extraordinary levels far beyond that of a regular person. We don't know if Hartley was a fluke or not either, one success doesn't equal medically viable.

All I can think, after that last page, is that Jay bears a very strong resemblance to my Grandpa Chuck (and I'm pretty sure if my grandfather had superpowers, that is exactly the kind of costume he would design). It makes me inclined to think well of him :D

He tickles my old man fantasies... every now and then I am in love with men way too darn old for me... he's my only fictional one because just so casual about yeah, I chopped the druid dude to bits and am picking my teeth with him what about it! annnd training Dinah amongst other awesome things. BTAB Wildcat gets to be head of the outsiders!

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